Tuesday, January 22, 2013

Vintage Flora Nails


Finally found the time to do my nails. I've bought this bottle of Essie some time ago but haven't the time to try it. I thought it would look beautiful for vintage nails and decided to give it a shot. First, apply Essie's Mint Candy Apple as the base coat (looks so refreshing!). Using a stripper brush and white polish, draw straight lines to create the stripes nails. For the roses, I used OPI's Japanese Rose Garden as the flower base colour and Revlon Red for the outlines. The leaves are CG's Glittering Garland.

I think you can easily find tutorials on how to draw the roses online. Its easier than it looks. 1) Use a dotter to draw patches of the lighter pink. 2) Using the red, outline the roses and draw some small curves in the centre for petals with a small brush. 3) Add on the leaves with a green. And there you go!

Tuesday, January 1, 2013

DAY 12: Stripes


My cell group's Christmas party was held after Christmas and the theme was candy canes! So I decided to do a candy cane french tip, which didn't go very well. Haha! I had problems controlling the brush to draw very thin lines. But here it is! Stripes challenge completed!